Total Recall(1990) vs Total Recall(2012)

Total Recall 2012 reminds me of the movie Sunshine. Some great visuals and some great ideas, but the action oriented majority of the movie doesn't jive well or advance the potentially great ideas initially put forth in the movie.

I think for a scifi chase movie the 2012 TR isn't bad, but while the 1990 version maximized the cheesy world it had to work with, 2012 version just plays it by the numbers once the action begins.

Never saw the 2012 version and don't plan on it.

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It was ok to watch for a new sci fi flick. But the cheesiness you say about the original is what makes it so much better. They did it on purpose.

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Well it was an 80s movie as well. But look at its contemporaries for scifi action/chase movie. Running man for instance, they were in the same category of movie, scifi chase movies with social commentaries. (And with Arnold of course.) But Total Recall is far superior in so many ways. Cheesiness goes hand in hand with so many genres in the 80s, but comparitively, the first Total Recall was just a much more successful film, regardless of its time relative faults, than the recent version.

I feel like johnny cab is one of the best parts of the movie

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But the cheesiness you say about the original is what makes it so much better. They did it on purpose.

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They didn't mean for it to be cheesey. That shite was serious business back then.

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They didn't mean for it to be cheesey. That shite was serious business back the

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I am talking about the one liners and dialouge.


Did Michael Ironside's role remind you of Scanners?

I think you may be right

You jokin? You have to watch Scanners.

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Total Recall(2012)

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should not even be named total recall they dont even go to mars, the only similarity is the chick with three tits.